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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-11
NOTICE.

To my many customers and friends OF
Eagle Lake and surrounding country!
/ have Just received a large invoice of
Tea direct from Japan, my own impor-
tation shipped from Japan, Aug. 9th and
Just arrived. | want all my customers
and friends to call and get a sample of
Tea free, also one box tea seed. This
tea is put up under the new process and
is No. / and fully 25 per cent. cheaper
than you can buy it from any other
house in Blue Earth county. This is a
good deal to say, but can back it with
the tea and price, or some one come and
try il and if not as / say will hold my
peace, but if it is so shall continue toilet
the public know it. | have also received
an immense stock of Ladies' and Misses
Cloaks and Jackets at prices to suit the
times, In fact my store is full from top
to bottom with new goods. Remember
we have not bought out any old stock OF
goods at % per cent. on the dollar, but
all our goods are new and fresh and
prices that makes them move. We also
buv dry and green hard and soft wood
and pay the highest cash prices. 1t will
be to your interest to call upon MS before
buying your winter goods, we are bound
to make our prices sell the goods.
Thanking you for past favors and hop
ing to merit continuance of your patron
age, / remain yours for good Goods
cheap.
ID. w. SELLECK,
Prop. Cheap Cash Store,
| Is At Eagle Lake, Mimi.
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He Thanks His Paper,

Mr.. EDIToR:-I was induced by read
ing your paper to try DR.. Harter's Iron
Tonic for debility, liver disorder and
scrofuia, and three bottles have cured
me-: Accept my thanks, JOS. c. Booas.
En-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-11

Magazine binding specially at the
FREE PRESS Bindery. Gather up your
old Harpers and Centurys and get them
bound in good style, and at very reason
able rates.
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Is natures own true laxative. 1t is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known to Cleanse the System
when Bilious or Costive; to Dispel Head
aches, Colds, and Fevers; to Cure Habit.
ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. j.
K. Jones, druggist. sep9,yld&w
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large rooms for rent, with or without
stabling, Also new room house and
lot for sale, located on corner Elm and
Second streets. Inquire of b. Bangerter's
shoe store.
stiff JOHN II. SCHMIDT.
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Miss jamie Burrows died at her home
i'm Sterling, Oct. 18th, 1887, aged % years
and one day. She he'd grown from
childhood to womanhood In our midst
and was loved by all. She was an earn
est Christian and it can be truly said,
"Our loss is her gain. /"
Forever with the Lord, jamie,
Thy tolls and tears are done;
Thine now is glad reward, dearest,
And ours TO labor on.
Soon shall the summons come, darling.
Soon shall we too depart,
To Join thee in thy home,
noar da,,ohter Of Ollr heart 3"
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The st. Clair Roller Mill

At st. Clair, this county, has been fitted
up i'm first class shape and is turning out
a grade of -four second to none, We
guarantee our patrons q No. i article of
flour and square dealing. Bran and
shorts constantly on hand at reasonable
rates WISH
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Shirts to Order

For complete line of Fur Goods, in
Guiding Overooats, Caps, etc, go to
lStf HENLEIN'S.
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for ga

Henlein won't be undersold by any
firm in the city. lStf
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Henlein carries an astonishingly large
stock of goods and it will surprise the
visitor to see it's size. lStf
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j. S. Roller wants Barley, Beans and
old Corn. II
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TELL-rALE BOOKS DESTROYED.
Hotel Resisters Are Burned Now by All the
Big Houses in the Country.

Hotel Resisters Are Burned Now by All the
Big Houses in the Country.
New York Mail and Express.
What becomes Of all the old hotel registerslr
asked reporter of the clerk of fashionable
up town house. The clerk had just opened a
new travellers autograph album with the date
inscribed with mighty flourish. and was cast
ing the old one into a corner. He welcomed the
first new arrival on the new book. gave him the
coolest room IN the house, blew up two bell
boys for fighting in the hall, quieted guest
who was kicking for more blankets on his bed,
and said:
That's like the fourteenth century question
about what becomes of all the pins. We don't
keep them. We won't let any one else keep 'em
if We know it. Hotel registers are as carefully
destroyed as if they were dynamite cartridges
that may blow the house up at any moment.
We cut the backs out and sell them to book
binders. The leaves we either burn ourselves
sell them to some whom know will
grind them up into paper stock at once, and
without saving page. Why are We SO
particular about that? Because every
time there is big divorce suit some hotel
register is called upon to bear witness to some
thing UNPLEASANT, and we tired of it. The
last divorce suit in which this house was inno-
Gently mixed up took every old register we had
and most of the clerks and bell boys to court.
and interfered so much with business that it was
hard work for guest to rake up anybody about
the house to wait on him. A man had registered
here under eleven different names, and they
Ts~-as an awful nuisance and didn't do the house
any good, either"
Don't you make any exceptions to your
rule?"
"Oh, we'll. if one of those autograph fiends
can convince us that he is not hunting up evil
dence of some kind, but only wants to paw
around for some great mans signature we let
him go through the book before it is destroyed.
But 1t is seldom that we grant the privilege. We
have to refuse great many importunate people,
too There was excited man from Boston here
not long ago, who wouldn't believe that we
didn't have the registers, and offered $1,000 for
one. He thought he had discovered that his
wife had been here when she was supposed to
have been visiting her aunt in some count
town in Massachusetts. If he had offered $50
900, he couldn't have got that register. because
it was half way through the paper-mill at that
time. Besides the possibility of annoyance from
the courts, the keeping OF registers used to make
trouble because they took MP so much room. A
frst-class hotel in New York city will use from
sic to dozen registers a year. and in a few
years they would have q storeroom full of them.
Seef
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pose. permits to edit majority of country
journalss When Mr.. Greeley was mad he was
mad all over.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the County Newspapers Have to Say Of
Democratic Devilishness.

Vernon Banrer Green Smith was sized down
right on the pay roll, at any rate
Lebanon Patriot: To the Attorney general
prosecute the rascals to the bitter end.
North Manchester Journal: AS salary grab
Der DR.. Harrison heads the procession
Rushviie Republican: Mr. Green Smith and
his pals will get a hearing in November, 1888,
which will last them.
Goshen News: Is it possible that the trustees
OF the Insane Asylum are to continue in office
after the horrible revelations recently made?
Mitchell Commercials A large part of the mis-
cradle state of affairs that now prevails may be
attributed to the scheming and mismanagement
OF Governor Gray.
Lafayette Call: It is remarkable. the peril
nacity with which the Indianapolis Sentinel in
ssts that the State Senate constitutes the whole
General Ascend bly,.
Petersburg Press: In the next campaign the
democratic party will have to carry Jack How
ard, Green Smith, Sim Coy and the balance of
the corruptionists and revolutionists-
Broekville American: Isaac P, Gray is an
am oltlous demagogue, and it is we'll that the
party with which he has been acting for twenty
years is at last finding him out
Logansport Journal One Of the most disgrace
full results Of the Green Smith gang rebellion
and usurpation is the fact that it continues the
corrupt and profigate spokesman, DR.. Harrison,
III charge Of our great Hospital for the Insane.
Huntington Herald: There are several Demo
| Gratis in this county who condemn the nefarious
practices OF the usurpers and maggoty butter
ring In the Democratic party. They will, also,
make their condemnation felt at the polls next
fall.
Logansport Journal: IF the Democratic party
in this State would follow the leadership of such
Democrats as VIM. Henderson. of Indianapolis,
1t would soon redeem itself from the dsre
pute in which it is now held throughout the
Nation; but if the Green Smiths and Sim Coys
maintain their supremacy all such men as Mr..
Henderson will be driven out of the party. and
it will become more and more q stencil in the
nostrils of decent men everywhere.
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THE AUTHOR OF THE RAVEN
A Man Who Was Uniformly Morose, Gloomy
and Disagreeable.

A Man Who Was Uniformly Morose, Gloomy
and Disagreeable
W a. Watson. in Omaha World.
Did know Poe? Yes, very we'll although l
cannot say that I sought intimacy with him, nor
did anybody else that | ever knew. l do not
rate him as he is rated to-day, and personally he
is remembered as very disagreeable man,
though have seen him at times when he
quite the reverse. If you sought Poe's favor
you must fatter him. No matter to what ex-
tent, he could swallow it all, but adverse criti-
cism drove him crazy. and when Rufus Girls
void tore that very fallible poem. "The
Raven" to pieces. thought Poe would have
murdered him, and Griswold was of the
same opinion. They were deadly enemies
forever aftor. and Poe had challenged the
criticism and Griswold did not detect the
really great fault of the poem. Poe declared
that he had written 800 lines before producing
that poem and had eliminated all but those pub
lished. To real poet this is nonsense, espe-
cially SO when, with all this care, he forgot to
tell how he gets the ravens shadow on the floor.
He hears tapping. tapping at my chamber
door" which he opens, and finds darkness there,
and nothing more. Then the raven comes in
the window, and, after hopping about the room.
"perches the bust of Psl.ae just above my
chamber door," Then something threw its
shadow-the ravens shadow-on the floor. !
put the question to Poe, and his reply was that
there might be fanlight over the door, and the
light come from outside, but he had provided
for that with darkness there and nothing more.
It did not do to argue with Poe
Another Of Poe's besettipg sins was ngrati
tude. He took everything as a matter Of
course. every gift, every service. as his due and
belonging to him through his transcendent
genius. A few days after mutual friend of
ours had done him great service, having pre-
viously done him many, we met, and / spoke
highly to Poe about him, knowing what he had
done. and also knowing how Poe looked on mere
business men, of whom he was YES, "
said Poe with sheer. hes a very decent fellow,
and you know men like me should use men of
his calibre."
There was never anything funny to tell abou.
Poe. He Was gloomy. always gloomy. Some
men of morose turn are otherwise IN their
cups but not so with Poe In that condition he
was quarrelsome, and his moments of bright
ness were exceptional, and when they did come
| upon him. he must be allowed to absorb all the
| conversation he sulked. He had always
| come impracticaole, magnificent scheme IL his
head, without head, tail middle, like his
raven intended for nobody to understand but
himself.
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training. Not till it is over two years old is
the colt ever sadded or brded, and then the
utmost care is taken not to fatigue the animal;
preliminary to the mounting of a full-grown
rider. they are frequently led up and down with
a pack saddle on their backs aud a bit in their
mouths. which is covered with undressed wool.
At length the man mounts the colt in order to
complete its education. Before it has only been
allo we'd to carry child on it's back: now it is made
to feel the power of q master hand--the great
object in view being to accustom the animal to
ungrudging obedience. At first the colt gets
only light work and is ridden without spurs and
but little force is used. His owner canters him
around among his belongings. using tas seldom as
he possibly can) light cane. just to remind his
horse that he has a MASTER immense pains are
taken not to tout or narass the animal. but to
train him in the way he will have to go; he is
always addressed in gentle voice and no oppo-
sition is experienced.
One bit of business it is deemed of the utmost
Importance he should be taught from the begin
ming of his training, and that is to stand stone
still while his rider is dismounting and not to
stir after he has dismounted. The value
of such training was seen when an Arab
rider was shot and fell from his horse
it stood still till it was remounted The train
ing of these animals is so complete that any
person might ride one of them to marker-pass
the bride over the horses neck, let it fall to the
ground, then placing a brick stone upon it,
go away on business. remain absent for an hour
or two, and come back in the certainty of find
ing his colt where he left it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-18

Western Christian Advocate: What man
can do in the world is largely decided By what
a man is determined that he will do in the world.
A tallow candle can be driven through an oak
plank, if only fair charge of powder is back
of it in the rifle barrel. And a mere worm can
find it's way through the same plank. if only he
will keep at it long enough. Even steel
pointed shot would make no impression on that
plank. without the force which drives the can
die, or the persistency that guides the worm
Native genius is the steel pointed shot. Deter
mined energy in a man OF weakest mind and
frame. represents the powder-driven candle.
The plodding, humble worker is like the peDe-
trasng worm No man has so few or SO feeble
faculties. that he cannot do great work in the
wofld-if only he has the energy and the per-
sistency to do it whether he can DO 1t or not
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lncendiarism at Oxford, N. G.

RALEIGH, N. c., March 17.--Later news from
the town of Oxford which was so nearly de-
stroyed by FIRE on Tuesday, confirms the report
that the Are was incendiary. The white people
say that negroes are the incendiaries, and troops
were on duty there last night and to-day. Dur
ing the fire many negroes acted very badly, de-
Ginning in most instances, so lend a helping
hand. and refusing to work for pay. At the
outbreak of the fire it was discovered that all
cases were tied and could not be used in giving
the alarm. Two men swung the rope of the
court house bell, but not sound could be made.
In apprehension of trouble. Albert Tabor. q
negro desperate. whose threatened lynching
aroused the negroes and caused them to make
threats to burn the town, is carefully guarded
having been brought here on Tuesday night
The loss is now stated to be 800, 600; insurance,
$40 600
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Soldiers Monument Commissioners.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journals
When the State officers come to appoint the
commissioners to adopt plan and superintend
the erection of soldiers monument in memory
of Indana's soldiers, why should they not keep in
unison with the current thought of that class of
men? Ex-1ndana soldiers mot camp-folowers)
should be allowed to select the plan and direct
the building of this structure, because they are
in nearest sympathy with the memory of their
dead and hold the keenest friendship with the
living. This selection should be made from the
surviving heroes of the late trouble, and from
men who have not constantly had Office The
true exsoldiers want such selection, and if this
be done they will finally conclude thew are for
once recognized and will have men who will fear
lessly speak for their rights in the future Give
such men SIS George r. Brannam and Court
land E. Whist, and Of their kind, then the ap-
pointments will be fitting. EX-SoLDIERs.
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Horace Greeley's Powers OF Invective.

Brooklyn Eagle.
The late Henry J. Raymond wrote the Cam
paign Life of Abraham Lincoln when he was a
candidate for reelection in 1864. He desired to
print in part some correspondence between
Horace Greeley and the President but thought
the exigencies Of the national cause then would
require parts of Mr.. Greeley's letters to be sup
pressed So thinking; Mr.. Raymond wrote to
Mr.. Greeley, asking the latter's permission to
use parts of his letters and his
pardon for intending to use only
parts. and giving his reasons for the
omissions Horace Greeley eurtly wrote back.
Gan, or none" Nevertheless, Mr.. Raymond
published them only in part. When the book
and the full text of Mr.. Liucoln's, the Tribune
instantly published all of Mr.. Greeley's-he
having fortunately kept copies of them. 1t was
on this occasion, in characterizing the course of
Mr.. Raymond, that Greeley ferociously write:
II Ike cool things OF q reasonable size glacier
or an iceberg, for instance, but the Himalaya OF
frigidity and the arctic circle of coagnlation in
volved in the performance OF the Little Villain
paralyze credullty and fatigue indignation"
Mr.. Raymond recovered gradually, but always
said that was the most terrible form of obiurea-
ton he had ever encountered. The Herald
called it the ''delirium tremens Of the superla-
tive mood" Miles O'Reily spoke of it as "a
we'll sustained swear" and there were various
other DEMONSTRATIONS Of it, among them that
of Artemus Ward, who referred to it, remem-
Der. as IAN able bodied d. The old man
never eaualed IL until he wrote in any open let
ter to the Union League Of "well gaming but
narrow minded hlockheads, who would like to
help on a great cause but don't know how Cap
ping that with . reference to sthose small
creatures whom God, for some inscrutable pur
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Tho WOman's Relief Corps.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
The note concerning the Woman's Relief Corps
controversy in yesterdays issue was not re-
port from either the George Fl. Thomas Post or
corps. but from the constituted authority of the
E. Griffin, of Ekhart, Ind, has called
convention for next week, but without
the sanction of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, and in contradiction to the expressed wishes
of some of the prominent members Of that
body. The commander of the G. A. R, depart
ment of the State, and other prominent officers
and past officers have personally. both In writing
and verbally, expressed their hearty sym
patty and cooperation with the de-
partment which held its conven ton on Feb. II,
and Mrs. Griffns authority is not recognized by
a majority of the w. r. c. department. AS
proof of the kind of work emanating from the
headquarters of the past president, Mrs. Griffin,
the following fact will testify. Among those
who are cited to appear at the tribunal tl) of
this same past president is lady
of Indianapolis who has received no.if-
cation Of the charge of having arranged"
for the public installation of corps in this city,
'.hy past commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Jan. 5, 1885, This was not according
to the letter of the law. although it was in keep
ing with the intent and purpose Of the intended
public meeting. The law of the Womans Relief
Corps provides that offenses of the year
are forgiven and annulled after the
annual meeting. if the court does not
previously fix the penalty. Two annual
meetings have passed since the affair, and Alice
E. Griffin, who was the department president in
1885, at that time also condoned the offerse pub
liclv and beyond retraction, yet. in her desire
punish(s) the members of the staff of the pres
ent department. for accepting the offices to
which they were elected, she is preferrng such
charges as the foregoing, and threatening eXpul-
sion from the department.. OFFICER.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, March 1.-THE business men
and others of this city have organized what is
known as The Winchester Improvement Asso-
citation. The object is the general development
and upbuiding Of the town by the encourage
ment of manufactures and all other worthy en-
terprises. Articles of association have been
adopted. and there is already good member
ship of wide-awake, energetic, pushing men. A
strong executive committee. consisting Of the
following named gentlemen. are now ready to
talk business to all persons wishing to engage in
business in q substantial town: Hon. A. O.
Marsh, T.. s. Jaqua t. F. Norman, W. e. Mil
Ter, B. F. Boltz, Judge j. J. Cheney and Auditor
j. Cranor
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NEW YORK. March 1I-Nate Salisbury, the
wel-known comedian, was married at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. in the new courthouse to
Miss Ray Samuels, An actress, formerly of the
Salisbury Troubadours and Carleton's Opera
Company. Judge Edward Patterson, of the Su-
preme Court, offciated at the ceremony, which
took place behind closed doors, and Col. Robert
g. Ingersoll acted as one of the witnesses-Dr.
T. S. Robertson. we'll known in the profession,
being the other The couple will remain at the
Westminster Hotel until the end Of the month,
when they will sail for England with the Wild
West show, in which Mr.. Salisbury is partner.
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One Hundred and Five Years Old.

warthington Green County, Times.
Probably the oldest person in the State of In
diana lives in the eastern part Of this county, in
the person OF Mrs. Sarah Bland. who was
born in Virginia in 1852 and is consequently los
years old For many years, until lately, the
old lady made yearly trip to this place to buy
knitting yarn, but age has dimmed her eye and
shattered her nerves to such extent that she
rarely ever leaves her home though she is still
able to go about her house, and do considerable
light work. Five children were born to her oe-
fore the of 1872 broke out, and of the eleven
children she has given birth to, ten still liv-
ing, among them being Aunt Vina Phipps, of
Highland township. who is herself grand
mother. Mrs Bland has never in her century Of
life been sick enough to call physician.